Israel’s top technical school, the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, comes in at eighth place in a list of the institutions with the most Nobel prizewinners in the 21st century.
American institutions make up eight of the top ten spots in the list, drawn up by Times Higher Education magazine. The two non-American institutions are Germany’s famed Max Planck Society at tenth place and Israel’s Technion at eighth.
Three of the world’s top universities, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge, did not make the top-ten list. Harvard is 11th.
The list covers Nobels awarded from 2000 to 2014, and does not include prizes for peace or literature. Israel won five Nobels since 2000, mostly in chemistry, putting it in fifth-place overall by nationality of Nobel winners, behind Germany (seven Nobels), UK (12), Japan (13) and the US (71).
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